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Besnard, Jean Yves -- from France. J-Y arrived to
the PAC RPF with 30-40 other Int staff from uplines in early 2004. Prior
to this he had been assigned to the RPF at GOLD. He was one of the top
technical guys on the HEM line for many years. (Hubbard E-meter
Manufacturing at GOLD, where all e-meters are produced, assembled and
serviced). He's an electronic genius and was responsible for all the
e-meters that were turned out on the assembly line, and each one had to
be a perfect product, because all hell would break loose if they didn't
pass an inspection.

When he first arrived to the PAC RPF he had to
deal with some family situations that he was never able to get
straightened out. His kid, who also was at Int, ended up routing out as
a teenager and there was family misery because of no time for family
life etc. The kid left and J-Y was ordered to "handle or disconnect",
which is the "standard PTS handling". When J-Y arrived, he spent a lot
of time with the ethics officer trying to get this situation under
control, but apparently the kid was in some major protest of the family
situation and caused a lot of trouble.

I believe his kid was raised at the "Int Ranch", where most of the
kids end up, unsupervised and with poor education. One example of that
is Cameron Allsop, who was born in the Sea Org and could barely read
when he ended up in the RPF as a teenager. Both of Cameron's parents are
still at GOLD. It took him about 6 years or more to get the through the
RPF program and he had to learn how to read and study before he could
even start! J-Y had already had to divorce his wife at GOLD and now he
was responsible for their child, still being a minor. J-Y's family life
distracted him quite a bit, to the point that he was getting in trouble
in his work, so the solution was to "get rid of him", because he
couldn't handle the kid that caused trouble on the lines at GOLD and
Int. Despite the many attempts that he did make, it was to no avail and
he ended up on the RPF. The viewpoint is basically that "you are off
purpose if you want to spend time handling your family and neglecting
your duty and post". It's already a known fact that "children are a
distraction to their parents in the Sea Org" and if they cause too much
trouble or are forced to be in the Sea Org with the parents, and then
create trouble in their teens, dramatizing their protest, the family is
basically gotten rid of, RPFed or routed out.

He tried to take care of his children, but he wasn't allowed to do
this properly as there was no agreement from those in charge, like the
RPF I/C Int Chris Guider. Instead he was hammered and pounded that he's
"not with the program, and you need to decide to get back on post, or
you will be SP declared and routed out!" I don't know what Chris Guider
told him when he came down to do one of his routine invalidative
handlings of Int RPFers, but J-Y got fed up with the situation and
decided to handle his family situation and consequently he got SP
declared. He had a lot of personal belongings with him when he came down
from GOLD. Over the years he had invested his hard earned money in
musical instruments and other expensive electronic gear that was worth
at least $10,000 if not more. This included guitars, a saxophone,
loudspeakers, a mountain bike, lots of CDs and you name it. When he was
handed his SP declare he was happy to finally be able to leave, but he
never had a chance to arrange to pick all his stuff up. He left it all
behind in his rush to get out of there. Maybe he was so relieved to get
out of there that it didn't matter to him??

He wasn't the only one who was forced to get rid of or abandon their
personal belongings. When there was a massive evolution of GOLD staff
that had been RPFed uplines and then all sent down to PAC the same week,
it created massive confusion with all the belongings that they all
brought with them. Imagine 40 people's life belongings, everything they
own and several were married couples, like the Hodens, the Magnussons
and the Epsteins. It was all was packed in a rush and shoved into trucks
and sent down with them. Sometimes even the ethics officers at GOLD were
packing RPFers belongings, just to speed up the process to get them all
out of there! It was horrible to watch such ousting of my own friends!
All this stuff filled a huge room that was empty and not renovated,
hundreds of square feet. It is where all the RPF has their musters in
the west wing of Big Blue towards Catalina Street on the 1st floor,
where you see all the white plastic in front of the windows. (The living
space is on the 2nd floor right above it.) We were not told why to put
that plastic up, but it's obvious, not to draw so much attention in an
attempt to hide 200 people!!

When the Int execs come down to PAC, they always come through the
entrance at Catalina, into the "horse shoe" driveway, and it was quite
easy to find out when DM was on the base, as we were told "stay away
from the windows" and "Catalina street is OFF LIMITS UNTIL FURTHER
NOTICE" with notes posted on the exit doors. I always wondered why it
would be such a big deal "if David saw the RPF or any specific one from
Int"! Isn't he somewhere on the line approving of getting rid of all his
staff at GOLD and Int? Doesn't he know that this is the major disposal
line of "disobedient and disaffected, disagreeing staff"? I watched the
numbers of GOLD staff shrink slowly but surely over the years, and fewer
and fewer new ones can manage to make it through the "Int Clearance
lines". The staff that is left there now has to work harder and harder,
with less and less staff. Who is going to make all those films and CDs
soon? They are already working nightshifts and at new product release
evolutions, some guys don't even sleep for 2-3 days, until they
collapse! The "all-hands activities" are all done in addition to your
normal post routines, and you get killed either way -- if the release
doesn't come off successfully or if your own stats are down! So it's
just a matter of time before the whole place collapses in protest or
overwhelm! In order to make it through the approval lines to Int and
pass security, you basically have to be a saint! Preferably a virgin
with perfect Sunday school attendance all their life! The guys that are
working around the clock trying to get "qualified" staff up to Int are
doing a lot of work in vain and are pulling their hair out in the search
of "Int qualified staff". The Int PPO (Personnel Procurement Officer)
has a frequent post turn over, because it's a fatal and impossible
challenge to do the end of endless "debug of the Int recruitment lines".
Soon there are only going to be a few top execs barking out orders all
over the place -- only to find out that the ones they are barking at are
already dead or gone!

When all these former GOLD staff were sent down from the Int RPF all
at once, it presented a problem -- there was simply no place to put all
their belongings. The space allocated for the RPF has shrunk to only 2
of the 5 big orange metal containers lined up in the very back that you
can see in the "Catalina parking lot". (Inside this is called the "Cat
lot".) The street is Catalina, behind the big blue building. The RPF I/C
was often preaching and ordering everyone to "dekludge" (meaning throw
away as much as you can), because we can not store it all. Right next to
the metal containers is a huge dumpster and this was filled up over and
over with stuff that people had saved and wanted to keep. We were also
made to feel guilty "to have so many belongings" as the containers are
rented and have to be paid for every month! When you really look into
it, each person only had 5-10 feet of shelving space, 2 containers is
not much when you consider the fact that they are holding over 200
people's life belongings.

When they left GOLD they had to do the same clean-out, obviously one
would not be allowed to bring everything when moving under these
conditions, so they had already been forced to throw out all but the
most valuable stuff people really wanted to keep. Then once they came
down to LA, they were told that "it's all garbage" and "you don't need
this anyway" and "why do you keep this stuff". This process was going on
for MONTHS and we were squeezing in all these belongings, repacking them
to utilize all the space, building shelving and dragging it out and
repacking it and putting it back in. In the middle of the summer in 100
degrees! Whole teams of RPFers were busy doing this over and over and it
was kind of a "relief" for the others when someone routed out, as they
got rid of a bunch of stuff!! How low on a scale of purpose can one
sink?

There were many people that routed out and didn't even bother to pick
up their belongings. Some arranged to have stuff shipped, but if the
expense was too much, it was just left sitting here; waiting until it
got so old that someone sooner or later decides to get rid of it and
trash it. On the RPF you are not allowed to have anything more than the
absolutely necessary things. This must fit into a small locker about the
size of 1 x 2 feet. A small amount of hygiene supplies and a few clothes
fit in there. Inspections are done over and over in the rooms and RPFers
having "too many personal belongings" are required to get rid of things
as it simply doesn't fit in the rooms that have 20-50 people in them!

In the process of moving all the stuff in and out of the storage bins
when people arrive or leave, (and there were very heavy ones, with big
boxes of books etc), many of the boxes get smashed up. Jean-Yves'
equipment was shoved in and out, many times left sitting in the middle
of the aisle, and each time something got smashed or broken a bit, his
loudspeakers to the stereo etc. All his personal belongings from his
bicycle to clothes and the above mentioned equipment was left behind. He
might be living in the LA area or maybe went to see his kids who were in
another state. I hope he decides to come and get his stuff before
somebody decides to throw it out as being deserted.